A New Member
Mew wakes with the sun warming her face. The nightmare had disappeared, leaving only Mew's usual nice dreams for the rest of the night.
Voltess stirs next, stretching on her mat. She smiles up at Mew, already awake, "Morning."
Mew forces a smile, "Morning." she decides to keep the nightmare to herself, not wanting to worry Voltess about it.
"Ready for another mission today?" Voltess asks, slinging the bag over he shoulder.
Mew nods, "Yep." she smiles, floating up out of her hammock.
Voltess nods, dashing for the passages as Mew flies off toward the mailbox. She checks it before Voltess can get out of the tree. There isn't anything there aside from a new issue of Pokemon News. Mew sighs, returning to the base to store it. They'd read it later.
Voltess is waiting by the time Mew returns to the box, "Ready to go?"
Mew nods, continuing on to the mission board like yesterday.
Voltess pulls two easy missions off the board, "These both go to the same dungeon. I bet we could handle both at once."
Mew purses her lips, "I don't know about that. We just started yesterday and barely succeeded at one mission."
"That was a harder mission, though. These are both simple." Voltess insists. The two missions were both easy, one involving a delivery and the other a simple rescue.
"Fine. We can try. Where are they?"
"Both are at the Beach Cave, come on." she runs off to the beach south of the guild.
Mew smiles, the Beach Cave was a very low-level dungeon. The new guild recruits went there for their first missions so it should be easy. Mew follows Voltess excitedly, truly happy for the first time that day.
The missions themselves were relatively boring. Voltess tracked down a Pecha berry for the first mission and Mew managed to rescue the lost and confused marill in the final room of Beach Cave.
After such an uneventful set of missions, Mew and Voltess are surprisingly tired. They return to the Great Tree for rest.
Mew floats half-heartedly beside Voltess, "That was boring. I vote that we try for slightly harder missions. I don't think we can handle the same level as the first one quite yet but we're higher than E-rank."
Voltess nods, "Agreed." she sighs, looking up to the Great Tree. She notices a small, deer-like pokemon standing on a sunny branch. She nudges Mew, "Hey. What's that?" she asks, pointing at the pokemon.
Mew shrugs, "Dunno. I've never seen it before."
"Maybe you should go talk to it. Ask it what it wants."
Mew nods, floating up to the pokemon.
As she approaches, additional details become visible. The pokemon is just a little shorter than Mew and has a white body with green paws with a red, cape-like flower on its back. The pokemon looks over at Mew as she approaches, "Hello, Mew. We meet at last."
Mew stops in her tracks, "Have... we met before?"
The pokemon shakes her head, "No. But I've been watching you. My name is Shaymin, and I'm one of the Great Tree's guardians."
"Shaymin?" Mew asks.
Shaymin nods, "My job is to protect this tree from harm. We have been watching you since you moved in all those years ago, waiting to see what your intentions were."
"I was just looking for a home!" Mew exclaims quickly, defensive.
Shaymin smiles, "We know. You've done nothing wrong and in fact seem to make the tree happy. I think it was lonely after Celebi left..." she adds the last part on under her breath so Mew couldn't hear, "I'm here to ask your friendship. I noticed that you started a rescue team with that pikachu there." Shaymin nods to Voltess still waiting on the ground, "I've been longing for an excuse to get out and see more of the world. The other guardians seem to have things covered here so I'm not needed as much as I used to be."
Mew can't speak, the suddenness of the new member a little much.
"I'm free to come with you, if you'll have me." Shaymin finishes, sitting down on the branch to await Mew's response.
"I..." Mew starts, turning to Voltess.
Voltess turns her head in a questioning expression.
Mew turns back to Shaymin, "I'll be right back. Wait here." she darts back to Voltess.
"What's going on?" Voltess asks.
"That pokemon up there is called Shaymin and she wants to join the team."
Voltess is shocked, "Really? What did you say?"
"I didn't say anything yet. I wanted your opinion."
"Well, I say let her join. You yourself said you wanted more members." Voltess smiles, "This is your chance. It's a free member."
Mew nods, returning to Shaymin, "Of course we'll have you!" she smiles, "Welcome to Team Legends, Shaymin."